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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
How to See the Mountains On the
Moon.

CT course, the first thing the observer
will wish to see will be the mountains of
the moon, for everybody has heard Of
them, and the most sluggish imagination
is stirred by the thought that one can
look off into the sky and behold ''the
eternal hills" of another planet as solid
and substantial as our own. But the
chances are that, if left to their own
guidance, nincty-nine persons out of a
hundred would choose exactly the wrong
time to see these mountains. At any
rate, that is my experience with people
who have come to look at the moon
through my telescope. Unless warned
beforehand, they invariably wait till full
moon, when the flood of sunshine poured
perpendicularly upon the face of our
satellite conceals its rugged features as
effectually as if a veil had been drawn
over them. Begin your observations
with the appearance of the narrowest
crescent Ofthe new moon, and follow it
as it gradually fills, and then you will see
how beautifully the advancing line of
lunar sunrise reveals the mountains over
whose slopes and peaks it is climbing, by
its ragged and sinuOus outline. The OBJ
server must keep in mind the fact that
he is looking straight down upon the tops
of the lunar mountains. 1t is like view
from Il balloon, only a vastly greater
height than any balloon has ever at
tanned. Even with powerful telescope
the observer sees the moon at an appar
cnt distance of several hundred miles,
while with a field glass, magnifying six
diameters, the moon appears as if forty
thousand miles off. The apparent dis
tance with Galileo's telescope was eight
thousand miles Recollect how when
seen from a great height the rugositics
of the earth's surface t1atten out and dis
appear, and then try to imagine how the
highest mountains on the earth would
look if you were suspended forty thou
sand miles above them, and YOU will,
perhaps, rather wonder at the fact that
the moons mountains can be seen at all
-P6puldr Science N0nthlH.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
Peas in the Pod.

The shelling of peas generally falls to
the young girl members of the household.
1t is rather tircsome everyone knows,
especially if the family is a large one
1t may make this little domestic trial
less irksome to combine with it some
times a little harmless romance which
is traditional among the Germans, who.
when shelling peas, watch for the pod
that holds nine perfect peas, but it is a
number seldom found They run six,
seven and eight, but nine is the exception,
so the girl who is 50 lucky as to find nine
peas in one pod lays it under the doorstep
Or gate. The first man who passes over
it will be her husband before peas come
again. This is one of the many little
conceits that give litt'espice to every
day life. Tie Germans hold that peas
have an alleged virtue in cases of love,
very much the slme as the English look
upon the mistletoe. In one part of Ro-
bemia the young maidens make garland
of five, seven or nine kinds CT pea bios
SONS upon which they sleep. The num-
Der always is odd for luck. The dreams
are supposed to come true. Any one can
verify the truth Of this little assertion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

The Electrical World presents some re-
markable figures as to the use of the te!e-
phone in four European countries-BeI-
gium, Holland, Italy, and Russia. The
tables give a list of the exchange sub
scribers in each country. The total of
such is, allowing for a few untabulatcd
exchanges, about 19, 900. In other words,
in these countries, with total popula-
tion of 1876, 900, 00O there are only 10, 900
subscribers, all told, or one in every :, 159;
while in the United States there are 147,-
900 subscribers in population of 5O,-
900, 600, or one in every $40. The dis
parity is remarkable. There are as many
telephone subscribers in New York and
Brooklyn as in all Italy with its twenty
eight millions of people; as many in Bos-
ton as in Holland with its four millions;
more in Chicago than in all the domin-
ions of the Gar
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

An eminent English statesman, Mr.
Giffen, has compiled tables which show
in part the enormous sums sent back to
the United Kingdom to the relatives and
friends of emigrants who have gained
homes in the United States. From 1848
to 1885, both years inclusive, there
was forwarded from America through
certain banks and mercantile houses
$155, 092, 935. a large part of which
eventually passed into the pockets of
Irish landlords In the last six years
covered by the tables the contributions
were greatly increased, the annual average
being 81, 427, ,474. OF course the state
ment is incomplete, for certain bankers
declined to furnish the required informa-
ton, and a great deal of money has
reached Ireland from America without
going through the hands of bankers.
The average annual amount remitted
from Australian colonies since 1875 has
been only $3.50, 900
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

A dangerous count erfeit of the silve
dollar occasionally passed is made of
ground glass combined with tin, lead
and other metals. Experienced bank
te lers say they cannot easily detect this
counterfeit. These glass dollars are brit
tie. filed in the palm of the hand and
raped vigorously with handle,
the dollar is easily split. They have the
metallic ring of genuine dollar are of
the correct size and nearly of the exact
wniUbt
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

Use warm knife in cutting bread and
the like.
Iron rust is removed by salt mixed with
lemon juice.
Egg shells crushed and shaken in glass
bottles half filled with water will clean
them easily.
The luster of morocco may be restored
by vanishing it with the white of an
egg Apply with sponge.
Soap is often wasted on paint. A lit
tie ammonia in the cleaning water, OF
whiting on a damp cloth will clean wood
much easier, and leave no yellow stain tc
tell of its abuse
Saleratus is excellent for removing
grease from woodwork which has moi
been painted. Spread thickly over the
grease sGots, moisten, and after it hai
re-r-.i.,I Is.Ir hour Off with tcpid
soap SudS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
Ira Unions in China

The trade unions re generally com
posed of retail traders and artisans. and
are of a more modern date than the mer-
chant guilds, few of them being century
old With regard to the merchants the
unions are generally composed of masters
and workmen, united as against society
In some trades where workmen are
numerous journeymen have their own
organizations, but generally, when they
have occasion to combine against en-
ployers (of which instances are rare), they
meet in some temple, commence a strike,
peacefully accomplish their object and
disband. Occasionally the unions en-
force their DEGREES in terrible manner
The Gold Beaters' Union of Soochow-
the Athens of China-some time ago
wreaked terrible vengeance on one of
their craft. Gold leaf was needed to an
unusual amount for the Emperor One
of the craft represented to the magistrate
that if he were allowed TO take a number
of apprentices the work would be greatly
expedited, and having obtained permis-
sion, he proceeded to engage great
many apprentices, violating thereby a
law of the trade which disallowed an en-
ployer to take more than one apprentice
at time. His conduct infuriated the
craft, and the word passed round :
"Biting to death is not capital offense. >
One hundred and twenty-three of them
rushed on the miserable man, each tax
ing bite. Death soon relieved the vic
tim of the tiendish rancor. To make
sure that none shirked duty on that oc-
casion, no one was allowed to quit the
shop whose bloody lips and gums did not
attest to his fidelity. The murderer who
took the first bite was discovered and be-
headed. st. .JdmcS's Gazette
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

An association in the Metropolis has
been conducting an inquiry into the co
operative undertakings in the United
States. 1t finds that there are at leas
fifty-three establishments engaged in co.
operative distribution in New England
and doing business estimated at 81, 900.
600. Cooperation has not succeeded il
the West as well as in the East, though
many establishments on the cooperative
plan are still in existence there. The
fact, however, is established that CO.
operation is one of the most successful
methods for allaying discomfort among
the producing classes. The New Yolk
O6serger remarks that "The recent Co.
operative Congress demonstrated very
clearly what can be done in this line
where honesty PrcvOus and energy, aUlI-
ity and practical experience are factors
in the case. Business conducted on this
plan will be successful just in proportion
as it is conducted economically and pru-
IDENTIFY, the rule in this regard being the
same as in the ordinary methods of bust
ness
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

The Shoe ant Leather Reporter says
that the strikes in the shoe trade during
the last year have cost in wages from
$4,000, 900 to $6,OOO,oOO Nearly half
this sum is said to have been lost in the
five months strike in Worcester county,
Mass. The Wilmington strike of moroc-
co workers lasted seven months and cost
1925, 900. The strikes at Salem and
Peabody, Mass, entail loss of So, 900, :
900 in wages. Lesser strikes bring up
the total.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

Miners are superstltIOus as well as
sailors. A well-knowR contractor was
telling Casual" of the New York
Graphic, the other day of the extraor-
dinary confidence the presence of rats
in shaft gives the workmen. 1t is often
impossible to tell in drilling and blasting
whether a vein of rock is solid or cracked,
hard or soft, safe or dangerous under the
conclusions of an explosion. And yet,
no matter how doubious the men have
been as to their safety under suspicious
conditions the discovery of rat in their
neighborhood quite restores their conf
dence, and they will march without hesita-
ton upon the most threatening wall and
conduct without fear powerful blasts.
Experience has shown them that rats never
seek dangerous ledges. The instinct OF
self-preservation in the rodent is as keen
as in the elephant. Nature has the same
wonderful care for the least as for the
greatest of her creations.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
YiviSecting Dogs.

DR.. B. F. Curtis has been conducting
a series of experiments on living ami
mails to ascertain, if possible, the effects
of in jurics inflicted on and within the
abdomen, and the best method of treat
ing them. His inquiries are considered
of especial importance by the profession
His experiments, or vivisections, wero
chiefly performed at the Carnegie Labor
atory. The animals were dogs Among
other experiments the buffer accident -
was artiticially produced. The dog, a
large one, was given sufficient ether to
be rendered unconscious, and while in
this state he was placed on the floor on
his back and a weight of six, eight, ten
and twelve pounds was dropped on his
stomach in different places from various
heights to ascertain the amount of force
necessary to rupture the internal organs,
a matter about which there is much dis
pute among doctors, most of whom claim
that great force is required After the
the weights had been dropped the dog
was placed on the operating table, given
st mulants hypodermically, the cut open
and the extent of the injuries noted.
The intestines were ruptured in several
Places, den monstrating that the force re-
quired was far less than usually supposed.
The ruptured intestines were csrefully
sewed up and the abdom nal cavity washed
out with an antiseptic solution.
The dog was then taken to the cellar
of the building, where DR.. Curtis had
arranged a dog hospital, which consisted
of vault in which ntAnber of soap
we've. ..r-r.,, aEe,,s s.lr,ar tie-r =is1,
each of which a dog under treatment
was placed and secured by a chain. The
animal referred to above was a very sick
dog, but pulled through and was made
the sub, ,e"t of several more experiments
before meeting his death. Almost every
possible accident that can occur to the
human abdomen was reproduced on the
dogs, and every kind of treatment sug-
gcsted by the most advanced scientific
ideas tried. A large number of dogs
were made subjects of Nivisection, most of
them finally losing their lives in the
cause of scienoe.-Ncao York World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

A careful estimate has been made by
officials connected with State Attorney
Grinnell's office in Chicago as to the
amount of money stolen by the Cook
county thieves in the two years from Sep
tember 1884, to September, 1886. Not
less than $3.50, 900 was stolen in 1SS4-'S5,
and fully $500, 900 in 18S6-'s7. The
total is estimated at 81, 900, 900 for the
two years. The tax levy for county pur-
poses for the same period was So, 5OO,-
900 - ST.. 200, 900 for 1sSi-'S5 and
81, 300, 900 for 18S5-'S6. The stealing,
according to the estimate, amount to
forty per cent. OF the levy in both years.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

A street railroad is in process of con-
straction in New York city on which the
motive power will be electricity. Each
car will be provided with motor charged
from an under ground conductor con-
nected with central station dynamo.
Roads using electric motors have been a
success for sometime in Baltimore, Kan
sas City and other parts of the country
New York seems to be somewhat behind
the times in this matter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

The monument over the grave of Israe
Putnam, the Revolutionary hero. at
BroOkllne, Conn, for which the State
appropriated $4,000, will be dedicated
June II, 1888, the anniversary of the
battle of Bunker Hill. The remains of
G neral Putnam, in remarkable preser
Tition, were lately removed from the
Brookline cemetery to the new site, and
the old tombstone, with the inscription
prepared by President Timothy Dwight,
of Yale College, was deposited in the
rooms of the State Historical Society at
Hartford
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

Down in Corea in the spring time men
go to the fields and pull up grains of the
Iali sown barley. If these grains have
only ono root, the crop will be small; if
there are two roots, the season will be
favorable. The months in which there is
to be the most rain are tod by inserting
twelve beans in piece of broom corn
and burying the whole in a small quantity
of ashes for the dew OF rain to moisten.
The beans most swollen represent the
months in which there will DO the
heaviest rainfall, 49, Chicago Times
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.


Fill bottle with cold water; draw a
stocking tightly over it, securing both
ends firmly. Place the lace smoothly
over the stocking and tack closely. Put
the bottle in Il kettle of cold water con-
tanning few shavings of soap, and place
over the fire to boil Rinse in several
waters and then drain and dry. When
dry remove and place smoothly in large
book and press with weights. Very nice
lace can be made to look new by this pro-
cess.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

II went down into my pocket, and
finding among the ruins fifty cent piece,
placed it on the Wheel in oae OF tie
compartments. In clear and distict
tone of voice said:
Zone bottle of beer, please
For a second silence rcigncd supreme
in the cave-like saloon. | soon heard
c:caking sound the wheel revolvcd, and
my ifty-ccnt piece disappeared from
view.
'For the space of several minutes !
heard nothing; then the wheel rcvolvcd
once more, and BET nc my astonlshed
"a rested bottle of beer. glass, and
n ten-ccnt piece, the glass being in one
compartment and the beer i'll the other.
] drank the forbidden fluid in silence,
and placing the empty glass and bottle
back in the compartments OF the wheel
] SAW them whiskcd from my sight, and
then withdrew.
Now, at no time was the ATTY who
sold me the liquor visible, ami j. would be
impossible for me to sw a. wAo or wlat
he was. The partition VIII ch divided
the cave and behind which the unknown
seller trlusa"tcd his business was very
tight, having but one crack in It.
looked through this, striving ia SIC what
was lchinI the mysterious partition, but
couli = e. b II one thing and that was
Govcrnm mt license from the Internal
Revenue cthcr at Icavcnwcrth IT
p,h5 (haE.) Latter
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
THROUGH THE STORM.

heard a voice, tender voice, soft alling
Through the storm;
The waves were high, the bitter winds wert
calling,
Yet breathing warm
Of skies serene, of sunny uplands lying
In peace beyond;
This tender voice, unto my voice replying.
Made answer fond;
Sometimes, indeed, like crash of armies meet
ing,
Arose the gale;
But over all that sweet voice kept repeating,
II shall not fail"
-HdIpeF'S Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

1t is estimated that the amount OF
money expended on new buildings this
year throughout the Union will be more
than 800, 900, ,OOO But for the labor
troubles in the spring much more could
have been invested in building opera
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

looting Of the craft by "speculator" har-
Dor pirates; pouncing upon thieves
boats at all hours of the night, and
securing both prisoners and booty-these
men, to whom every waterside character,
every willy fence or junk dealer, and
every harbor thief is known, and to
whom every inch of shore, dock, slip and
dark, pier-covered haunt is as an open
book, in storm and calm, in fog and
shine, in crashing ice and placid summer
ebb of tide, at midday or at midnight,
seem the embodiment of omnipresence {;
as they certainly are without mercy for
the merciless outlaws, they give no Sc
curity or rest in their nefarious pillagings
and crimes
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

The cotton crop now'maturing in the
South promises to be the largest ever
grown in the United States. 1t is esti-
mated at 1900, 900 bales-50O, 900 bales
more than were ever before grown in a
single year. Cotton may no longer be
king, but it is still in the royal family.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

1t is claimed that franklin and other
nave captured the lightning and har-
messed it in service, but good deal of it
seems to to be wandering around still in
wild state, doing great deal of dam
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
Advertising Rates.
Fractional parts Of year wIn be CHARGED .. fol

The Railroad Gazette states that it is a
well-known fact among railroad men that
on railroads running north and south the
west rails wear out the faster; that FIVE
rails will wear cut on the west side of the
tract while three are doing service on the
east side.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

Twenty-tiv years ago George Peabody
gave $50, 900 for the erection of i'm.
proved dwellings for the London poor,
an amount he subsequently increased to a
total of half million sterling. To-day
his trustees are the owners of eighteen
different estates, spread over the entire
metropolis, from Shadwell to Chelsea,
and from Bermondsey to Islington.
Their tenants number 10000, in 5,COC
separate dwellings, with II, 900 rooms.
As over one quarter of the heads OF
families are described as laborers or por,
ters, while there are no fewer than 26g
char-women, there does not seem to be
much ground for common belief that the
dwellings are too good or too expensive
for anyone below the skilled artisan class.
But the Peabody gift has done much
more than provide decent accommoda-
ton for 90, 900 people. 1t has set in mo-
tion all the other companies and trusts,
that together have provided house-room
for at least as many more. By insisting
firmly, but kindly, on the rent being paid
punctually week by week in advance,
the trustees have done much toward the
remarkable growth in thrift which has
been so visible of late years.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
Not Very Encouraging

Featherly (to messenger boy)-"Did
you deliver the message to the young
lady"
Messenger Bov-'Yes, sir"
Feathcrly And what did she saw,
Messenger Boy-She said: "Oh.
pshaw; it's from Mr.. Fcathcrly. Wa
Yopk SIM.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
By the Murmuring Stream.

Two children loitered by a murmuring
stream
That hurled briskly onward toward the sea,
And dreamed as even children oft will
Was it of life,
Its joys and strife2
Well, not to any dangerous degree
A moment thus they stood upon the bank,
Gazed wistfully in the cool depths below;
strip-a plunge-two shouting urchins sank
Beneath the tide
Their hair they dried
And later vowed they swimming did not go.
-Biaghagton ~. ~ Republican,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

There is really very lite, if any
popular demand for olcomargarinc o
imitation butter This fact has Eccf
as-lrtaincd whcic9er laws have been
enforced compelling the sale Of the bo2U
article on its merits.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18
A Kansas Device to Sell Liquor.

In several cities in the State what is
known as the "blind tiger" is the scheme
which is being used TO sell beer and
whisky. A description of this novel
little apparatus, ;old by gentleman who
investigated it, is as follows:
"Thc other day whel l was ont in
Western Kansas in a t WIN of not oveI
900 pcopI1 l askel tn hotel p,o!r.etoI
if there was any place where | could OBJ
tain some beer. lie pointed 5 ,gn' 'ticantly
to a lite due-out in tie cr,ar of the hotel
and motioncd me to go ahead.
II did, and passing five OF six steps
entered ii room about five feet below the
surface of the earth, ten feet long by six
feet wide.
Looking around on either side of me
was the wall, but gazing ahead was
partition dividing the room. In the
centre of this partition midway from the
floor to the ceiling was a revolving cyl
inder divided into compartments. Above
this "whccl," as it was called, were
printed the following words on placard:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

The Crown Prince Of Italy is very
clever young man He is only eighteen
Years of arc blt can speak tiI2ntly five
OF six languages. He can talk strategy
with a general OF science with scientist.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

: PUT YOUR MONEY
On the wheel.
Your change will :
Come back.
Beer, 40c psr bottle. :
: Beer, DC per glass. :
Blackberry brandy:
Two drinks for -. {:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-18

Bctty's franknesS- more 60 because
he was undoubtedly good-looKing.
Presently another appeal was made to
Betty by the fond aunt,
do you know, dear, Colin was placed
first in every examination that he went
in for when he was walking the hospi-
tals!"
'Really?" said Betty, incredulously,
raising to Colin the frAnkest, most inro-
cent of eyes. 81 thought clever people
became doctors sometimes"
For moment Colin suspected that she
was trying to snub him, but Miss Cam
pion attributed Bctty's rudeness to IA
tigue, and sent her Off to bed very soon
a ter dinner